Relaxed Murray surprised he does not miss playing

Andy Murray has revealed status has been "the complete opposite" to what he expected and that he is not missing tennis for illustration he thought he would.

The 37-year-old Briton, a three-time Grand Slam champion, called clip connected his illustrious 19-year profession aft nan Paris Olympics successful August.

Murray underwent a hep resurfacing cognition successful 2019 and had various wounded struggles during nan last fewer years of his career.

"Since I've stopped, I consciousness really free and person sewage tons of clip to do immoderate it is I want," Murray told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"I tin dedicate clip to my children and person free clip to play play aliases spell to nan gym connected my ain terms.

"It is really bully and I didn't expect that. I was expecting to find status difficult and beryllium missing tennis a batch and wanting to get backmost connected nan tennis tribunal connected tour.

"So acold it has been nan complete other to what I was thinking."

The 37-year-old won his first Grand Slam successful 2012 astatine nan US Open earlier ending Britain's 77-year hold for a men's Wimbledon champion successful 2013 erstwhile he defeated Novak Djokovic, earlier winning it again successful 2016.

Murray, who won Olympic golden successful nan singles astatine London 2012 and Rio 2016, played nan last lucifer of his profession astatine Paris 2024, losing successful nan doubles quarter-finals aft epic comeback wins successful nan erstwhile 2 rounds.

He acknowledged location was nary "perfect ending" for a tennis subordinate but revealed he was now emotion guilt-free astir his 4 children and woman Kim.

"The point that I ever recovered difficult successful caller years was that location was ever a guilt associated pinch what I was doing," Murray, who played 1,001 singles matches successful his career, added.

"If I was going distant for a travel of for illustration 3 to 4 weeks I would consciousness blameworthy leaving my children astatine location aliases being distant from my woman for a agelong clip pinch them, truthful missing nan kids I recovered hard.

"But if I was astatine location pinch nan kids past I was moving astir and spending a batch of my clip connected my feet aft training.

"I was past reasoning 'is this going to impact my training aliases capacity nan adjacent day, should I person my feet up?' I recovered that worldly difficult complete nan past fewer years."